Chlorine Research Paper

chlorine (Cl) is a yellowish/greenish toxic gas with a choking smell that is often used in pools to help keep them clean. It is located in group seventeen, period three of the periodic table. Chlorine has seventeen as an atomic number meaning that it has seventeen protons, and seventeen electrons. The atomic mass rounded to the nearest whole number of chlorine is thirty-five. In order to determine the number of neutrons subtract the atomic number from the atomic mass (35-17) which is eighteen.

Chlorine begins to boil at negative twenty-nine degrees fahrenheit. It begins to freeze at negative one hundred forty-nine point seventy-six degrees fahrenheit. Chlorine is not flammable on its own but will emplode if exposed to other chemicals like turpentine and ammonia. Chlorine is slightly soluble in water depending on temperature. Chlorine has eighteen isotopes which are

Thirty one through forty four, Fifty

Fifty one. Isotopes are a different form of an element with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.

Carl also did experiments and learned that it stained litmus paper, and decolorized leaves and flowers. It was created by combining pyrolusite and hydrochloric acid in 1774. Although Carl discovered chlorine it wasn’t until later in 1810 that Humphry Davy proved that it was an element. The name was given by Humphry Davy.The name is derived from the Greek 'chloros', meaning greenish yellow. It is found in cleaning products and used to be in pesticides, rubber, and solvents. The reason why carl was not the one who figured out that is because he believed that the gas had oxygen in